Molecular Machinery! Saturday, Oct 4 2008
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Email Michael:
October 5th, 2008 at 1:29 am
But, contrary to what a certain American biochemist/author would have you believe, it wasn’t intelligently designed.
October 6th, 2008 at 8:27 am
Yes yes. Diamondoid mechanosynthesis is probably not feasible. If we use heterogeneous atoms, however, then the machinery of the cell is a good starting place, in much the same way that birds demonstrated that heavier-than-air flight was possible.
October 6th, 2008 at 10:55 am
DMS is not feasible
Maybe so, but if so, why?